Good ideas come to those whose "brains are open"

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Sam Walton turned Walmart into one of the world's largest corporations by constantly keeping his eyes open and searching for new ideas in his competitors' stores. He spent a significant amount of his time traveling across the country to see what other people were doing. "In a professional context, intellectual curiosity is basically an abiding interest in any and all matters that could improve the job you're doing," say Boynton and Fischer.